What would you do if a lion stared straight into your kitchen window? That’s exactly what happened in Gujarat's Amreli, and it’s not the only incident of its kind.
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00:00A Gujarat family was stunned to find a lion atop a wall peeking into their kitchen on
00:082nd April 2025.
00:10Mulu bhai Lakhnotra's family had been asleep in their home in Gujarat's Ambreli district
00:14when the lion entered through an opening in the roof.
00:16They fled and called for help, alerting nearby villagers about the wild animal inside their
00:20home.
00:21The lion glanced around as a villager shone a flashlight on its face.
00:24At one point, it looked directly into the camera, its eyes glowing in the dark.
00:28The animal remained there for almost two hours before being chased away.
00:31But this wasn't an isolated case of lions wandering into human settlements in Gujarat.
00:35Ambreli district, located near the Gir forest, is the only natural habitat of Asiatic lions
00:40and has seen similar incidents before.
00:42In February 2025, traffic on the Bhavnagar-Somnath highway halted for 15 minutes as a lion walked
00:48across a bridge with vehicles waiting at a distance.
00:51Earlier in 2018, a lion entered a farmer's house in Ambreli's Patla village, killed a
00:55buffalo calf and was found resting on a heap of groundnuts before being guided back to
00:59Gir forest.
01:00From highways to homes and now kitchens, human-lion encounters in Gujarat continue to grow more
01:05frequent and more surreal.